Coin Hunting

[deepblue]

Good luck :Y:

 

[silver]

Well here's the 2c part of the noodle
Keepers
Left to right 80's, 70's, & 60's

Coins with any green on them

Or lots of green(will all go in a green bag seperate)

Three coins that have some sort of anomalies
Can't miss this one
I think that may be a piece of a 1c araldited on

Another(both sides)

And one more

Coins on the top of a couple of keeper piles

And a few Coins that looked a little better(until I seen the photos lol)

And probably the nicest coin

Except for the spotting on the reverse

Fun though, and who knows what's in the ones yet hey.

 

[silver]

And the 1c's

The out pile

Even the good looking ones have to go if they have a hint of green

Had a find as well

Bit bent, but 50%er, so into the 2022 silver finds it goes

The Keepers, left to right 80's,70's, & 60's.

a few of those from above

The better finds

Some of those from above

Two foreign
NZ

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

And two funny ones
Two letters not fully stamped

And not sure if this got hit twice

Almost looks like the top front of the crown in there amongst the letters

Well that's it..... almost two kilo's of green coins out of all that, but the years have a few more now(even though some are elusive) enough for a head ache

 

[deepblue]

Interesting that the 1990 coin has the crown. That they decide to use on the Fifth Portrait for all the Great Britain new coins since 2015.

The coin below is the single finest population 1 off 1 with the same crown 25 years later.

 

[deepblue]

Then in 2006 special 1 cent piece they went back to the old crown from the 1980's
Second equal finest coin.

 

[silver]

Probably because that crown was being used 50 years prior in 1966, so they popped it on the current effigy of 2006 certainly makes it special in that case.
You certainly have some humdingers when it comes to nice & special.

 

[deepblue]

As you know collecting is easy, knowing when to stop is hard. Auction just up in QLD at moment some of the 1 cent pieces are starting to hit above $600 per coin.
You could bee holding a fortune one day.
:Y:

 

[silver]

I think if I had of gone into the coinshop and struck up conversation as a child, instead of just looking at what I could see through the windows, I may have learned to look for the best coins I could find much earlier in life. However at that younger age of primary school i was only interested in spending money mostly. I did notice that some of the older children were looking for coins that were different outside the school shops, they would be like money inspectors at times, not sure what they were looking for at the time, but looking back it is obvious that their families were in the know about coins, either good new ones, or error coins that we're getting around. Takes a bit sometimes to get through the initial stages of excitement and hunker down into some form of expertise that places coins of a better nature into your hands. But then, you might find a better one to update what you have..... can't put it all in 22's until experience becomes expertise, even then one must be tentative just incase the expertise is just a reflexion of self praise lol.

 

[deepblue]

This weeks project completing the electronic Album for PCGS.
Edward VII FARTHINGS - Some single Finest and the rest equal or Second Finest in the Registery

Starting with the year 1902 thru to 1910.

Next Week working on the Queen Victoria Farthings.

 

[Fishermandan]

This weeks project completing the electronic Album for PCGS.
Edward VII FARTHINGS - Some single Finest and the rest equal or Second Finest in the Registery

Starting with the year 1902 thru to 1910.
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https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1702/1643539498_117880456.jpg

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1702/1643539093_51798157.jpg
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1702/1643539149_127423326.jpg

Next Week working on the Queen Victoria Farthings.

wow just wow

 

[silver]

1904 on the obverse, and the....
1908reverse is the winner for me for detail.

 

[deepblue]

The 02, 03 and 06 are the finest and the rest equal and second finest they are darkened because they are the same size as a sovereign and could be guilted with gold for forgery. To be passed off as sovereigns.

 

[deepblue]

Hey Silver,
Can you see the Observe of the coin on the Reverse on 1906 coin this is called shadowing and occurs when there is to much pressure on the die. The Obverse appears in reverse image because of this pressure.
cheers db

 

[silver]

Hey Silver,
Can you see the Observe of the coin on the Reverse on 1906 coin this is called shadowing and occurs when there is to much pressure on the die. The Obverse appears in reverse image because of this pressure.
cheers db

2,6,7,&8 by the looks of them(now that you pointed that out deepblue)
Maybe because they are a smaller coin it was easy to get the pressure wrong back then

 

[deepblue]

The 03 and 06 are stunning to look at in the hand, beautiful clean fields and no contact marks to the high points. Have sent off a 1841 1 1/2 pence and a circulation 1848 2 pence to the USA for grading post them up when I get them back.

 

[Adrian ss]

Is this coin worth more than 2 dollars? Saw one on ebay for 2500 AU dollars. Seems a bit of a stretch to me.

 

[silver]

Maybe the one on ebay had the paint on the obverse instead of the reverse...... that makes any of those worth more money

 

[deepblue]

It's not but scammers will try anything on the misinformed. A coin in UNC is worth about $4.50 raw. In the folder $8.95 in UNC and coin fully graded by PCGS in MS65 about $39.00

 

[Adrian ss]

Thanks for the replies.
So many of these painted 1 & 2 dollar coins for sale.
To me none of them are anything special. So many of them out there. Dead boring coins....I will still hold onto those that I have though.

I wonder if anybody ever found my two headed 2 cent coin that I made in 1972 while on my Instrument fitter RAAF Course.Turned out ok except that I did not orientate the heads correctly to each other.
I accidentally spent it one day and that was the end of it.

 

[deepblue]

I stopped collecting the $1 and $2 coins some years ago after the circulation for all the types of $1 coins exceed 1000 if you collected all of them.
Just stick to coins that have a very limited mintage like sovereigns.